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From: TR Young <TR.Young@uvm.edu>
Subject: Current Issue of Humanity and Society
Cc: Psn@csf.colorado.edu
There are several articles in the current Issue of Humanity
& Society deserving of your attention:

A.  Frank Lindenfeld, incoming President of AHS, discusses
        The Cooperative CommonWealth as an alternative to
        Corporate [privatized] capitalism as well as to
        State [bureaucratized] socialism.

B.  Elizabeth Mustaine and Richard Tewksbury study differences
        in male and female victimization in the work domain.  They
        find that the sources are different; Wome are more at
        risk if they are more highly educated and if their work
        requires late hours.  Men are at risk when they work in
        a metropolitan area and there is little security on the
        job.

        Their conclusion is interesting to both theory and policy
        in criminology: different variables produce crime for men
        and women; efforts to prevent crime must vary with time
        and place.

        In a word, monothetic theories of crime are not helpful
        nor are post hoc efforts to punish.

C.  William Du Bois shares his wise counsel with us on how to do
        applied sociology.  In brief, his article shares ideas 
        about how and why to be an activist sociologist.

D.  Barbara Ryan looks at identity politics with regret that it
        sometimes has the effect of dividing the women's movement
        more than promoting the well being of given sectors of the
        movement.

        While Professor Ryan acknowledges that gender politics...
        before identity politics...looked very much like a white
        middle class heterosexual politics...

        ...and while she more than concedes the need to support
        minority group affirmations, still she urges upon us 
        coalition politics since the divisions are killing the
        movement.

        Ryan concludes her essay with a poem by Charlotte Perkins 
        Gilman written more than 80 years ago:

                        The Socialists and the Suffragists

                           Your work is all the same
                           Work together or apart
                           Work, each of you
                             with all your heart.
                                Just get in the Game.

E.  Gino Petonito, my good colleague down at Alma College, explores
        hegemonic tendencies in texts on race/ethnicity.  She counsels
        us to not impose our own categories of race/ethnicity on the
        changing, constantly re-constructing multiple and situated
        realities in and with which people must work and live.

                                                        TR Young, Editor
                                                        FROM THE LEFT

The Summer Issue of FROM THE LEFT is in preparation.  Send announcements
to me at the email address above until further notice...

                                                                TRY
TR Young
Sociology
U/Vermont
TR.Young@uvm.edu